Rail and fish joint.



S. 62 O. WARE.

RAIL AND FISH JOINT. APPLICATION FIJJJD FEB. 21, 1010.

1,004,945. Patented 001;. 3,1911.

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Specification of'Letters Patent.

.To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that we, S'rnrnnN Vthxun and (n.unins VVAun, botlrsubjectsot' the King oi Great Britain, and residing at llornsby, near Sydney, intlie State of New South \Vales and Commonwealth of Australia,-

rails at each joint which joint has a solid, or single sleeper support thereunder (1n-' stead of twin sleepers) and that the rail ends of each joint will remain in the same horizontal plane as the rolling stock is pass-- ing over said joint thereby minimizing the concussion of the wheels upon the ends of the lengths of rails and this without. hindrance of provision for ordinary expansion and contraction of the rail lengths.

According to this invention a rail and fish joint comprises the peculiarly shaped or formed ends of the rail lengths a wider sleeper and ordinary fish plates and bolts though preferably a novel construction-0t fish plateis used on one side of the joint. The respective ends of the rail lengths are formed one With a projection or tenon in the head or tread and the other with a com plementary mortise or slot so that when the oppositely formed ends are butted together a horizontal long splice is formed which presents a continuous tread surface.

The novel construction of fish plate consists of a plate (with. ordinary oval bolt holes) having depending lugs to take against the sides of a sleeper and so keep the sleeper always under the rail joint. In laying the rails the joints of one. rail are kept intermediate of the joints of the other rail of that track. in laying the rails for double lines the ends may be laid for each side of the track so as to have the points of the tenons of the rail ends all leading points though there is no danger of fouling of the joints of single lines. 3 p In order that a practical application of this invention may be understoodreference will now be made to the drawings accompanying: and forming part of this. complete specification in which I. Figure 1 1s a perspective view of an unroved rail ioint for railwa s constructed according to this invention F igs.'2 and 3 being respectively views of the joint taken apart showing the butting ends of the rails at an angle to their normal positions. Fig.

a partial longitudinal-sectional view and Fig. 5 is atransverse sectional View of the joint;

One endof a rail 6 is formed wlth a pro- Patented Get. a, int i. i

ject-ion or tenon 7 extending from the tread S and the other end has a complementary mortise or slot 9 in the tread 8 and has an orifice or passage 10 from the base or heel of said mortise 9 through the tread for the escape of gritor moisture that may find its way into the mortise.

A fish plate 11 constructed according to this invention has in addition to the ordinary bolt holes depending lugs 12 at each end angled so as to fit over the base 13 of the rail and project downwardly against the sides of the sleeper 1%.

For double tracks wherein the rolling stock passes only one way'one depending lug on the fish plate might suflicein which rase it would take against the trailing side of the sleeper. The sleeper should be of sutlicient width to reachunder the ends of the rails to just beyond the last bolt hole of that fish joint and will then take between the depending lugs of the specially constructed fish plate but in the event of sleepers narrower than the length of fish plates being used the ends of the depend ing lugs will be angled in toward the sleeper. These projecting lugs 12 are formed in a manner especially adapting them to be thus forced in to'firmly engage and grip the sleeper 14. Each such lug 12 comprises, as clearly shown at Fig. 1, a depending sleeper-engaging prong or downwardly n-ojecling lower part, and an up per horizontal part or shank, which is shown as overlying the base flange of the ing the lug with a track sledge such as is commonly used for driving the usual spikes.

In use the lengths of rails are butted together with the joint on a sleeper let the tenon or projecting tongue 7 of one rail taking in the mortise or recess 9 of the other rail and both rails held together by ordinary fish lates and bolts and preferably one such fish plate having depending lugs 12 to keep the sleeper always under the joint should the rails creep.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said'inven tion and in what manner the same is to be performed We declare that What we claim is I A rail joint for railways comprising, in combination, two rails provided with treads and having abut ing engaging ends, one of the rails having a recess in its tread and the other rail being provided with a projecting tongue fitting in the recess, the recessed tread having a drainage and outlet aperture for the recess extending through the tread from the inner part of the recess downwardly and laterally outwardly and opening below the tread, and means for retaining the abutting ends of the rails in en gaged relation.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subspribing Witnesses. l

STEPHEN WARE. CHARLES WARE. \Vit-nesses PERCY NEWELL, M. J. GANDRICK. 

